by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Reading
The Clock in the Mountain is not the title of a Bones episode. It is, rather, a truly wonderful and beautiful idea. Design and build a clock that can work for 10,000 years, whether or not any human is there to wind it or see it. More such projects, please.
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Business, Reading
I’m not sure I needed the human colour of highly-paid executives weeping at injustice, but there are some interesting ideas in Behind corporate walls, the masters of the universe weep. We as workers can shift what work is for us. The suggested themes are good:...
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Hong Kong – Greatest Cities of the World. Thanks to Rosie for the link. Griff Rhys Jones takes a fascinating and accurate (IMHO) look at HK (a few years ago now; they were still building the ICC).
by Tom | Jun 15, 2011 | IT
Font & ScreenSaver hacks for Kindles has some very easy to follow hacks to allow you to put your own pictures onto your Kindle as screensavers (the screen that goes on when you toggle the power button) and change the fonts for reading. In other news, this means...
by Tom | Jun 15, 2011 | Reading, Science
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal FTW.
by Tom | Jun 13, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Public Diplomacy Fail: In Which I Visit The Repellent U.S. Embassy In Beijing, Have Words With a State Department Employee and Learn A Possible Way To Short-Circuit The Onerous New Passport Form paints a depressing picture of modern authoritarian infrastructure. Who...
by Tom | Jun 13, 2011 | Reading
Why are there so few archives of non-rare, non-specialist books, films, TV? A “someone else is doing it” problem? Well, one person is. A prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, forever. It still amazes me that after 20 years the only...
by Tom | Jun 11, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Asia-Pacific barbarians vs a world XV (Lewsey, Bastauread, Gollings etc). Not bad free entertainment for a Saturday. And the Dragon Boat Pool Party to follow.
by Tom | Jun 10, 2011 | Business, Tech
The Story of W&L carefully distinguishes the middle classes which can afford the internet and its related gadgets (smartphones, tablets) and the working classes which can afford a phone and paid applications for it. Very useful to bear in mind in many Asian and...
by Tom | Jun 9, 2011 | Business, Tech
Innovation Extravaganza. Lots of good stuff from trendwatching.com as always. My take outs: Isn’t it brilliant how many new products and services there are coming on to the market. They are mostly going to fail, of course, but great to see so many people try...
